User:Padmanabh phadke/be bold

Being bold is important on Wikipedia. The main question raised in this case was whether two distinct products were a subject of a tie. Tying is a specific type of exclusionary abuse which refers to the situation where customers that purchase one product (the tying product) are required also to purchase another product from the dominant undertaking (the tied product). E.g.: If you want to buy product A, you also have to buy product B. This is intended to provide customers with better products or offerings in more cost-effective ways. However, an undertaking which is dominant in one product market can harm consumer benefit through tying by foreclosing the market for other products. The Commission’s findings showed that Microsoft had tied it’s Windows Media Player to it’s personal computer operating system. The Commission’s decision was upheld on appeal by the general court. The court agreed that the media player and the operating system were two distinct products. The court said that the distinctness of the products had to be determined by reference to consumer demand. In its view there was a functional difference between the system software (the operating system itself) and the applications software (word processors, media player, etc.). There was serious evidence to point out that Microsoft advertised the Windows Media Player as a standalone product and download it by itself, it was designed to work with competitor’s operating systems, separate licensing agreements for the media player. In March 2004, the EU ordered Microsoft to pay a fine of € 497 Million, which was the largest fine handed out by the EU at that time. On 27 February 2008, the EU fined Microsoft an additional €899 million (US$1.44 billion) for failure to comply with the March 2004 antitrust decision. This represented the largest penalty ever imposed in 50 years of EU competition policy until 2009, when the European Commission fined Intel €1.06 billion ($1.45 billion) for anti-competitive behavior.